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click (see Frontispiece). She floated again at 4.15, 
and at 4.45 flew right away. 
Whilst Smyth at 5 p.m. was helping Miss Turner 
out of her hide, the Cuckoo again floated down. 
But Miss Turner felt cold and exhausted and went 
to a farm for tea. Smyth took her place at 5.15, 
the hide then being eight yards from the dummy 
nest. At 5.20 the Cuckoo returned to her tree 
and glided down fifteen minutes later only to alight 
very wide of the nest. But at 5.47 she again glided, 
this time to the exact spot, and taking in her beak 
the remaining egg, laid her own egg in the dummy 
nest, carrying the Pipit’s egg away with her. 
Whilst she was at the nest she was violently attacked 
by three Meadow Pipits, and, at the aforesaid 
distance of eight yards, Smyth could distinctly hear 
the impact as they buffeted her back and head. 
The Cuckoo alighted on the tall heather right above 
the Meadow Pipit’s nest, and within two feet of 
the dummy, but for nearly a minute she had her 
work cut out to balance herself against the attacks 
of the Meadow Pipits. She made no effort to 
defend herself, beyond opening her great mouth, 
ducking her head, and uttering sounds as though 
she were swearing at her tormentors. Eventually 
she jumped down on to the grassy opening and ran 
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